United States Third Circuit

A patdown at an airport immigration checkpoint was a "routine" border search requiring no level of suspicion whatsoever under the Fourth Amendment, and no discriminatory effect was shown to support an equal protection claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/25/2002
• Published 07/25/2002

Judges

• Before:  SCIRICA, BARRY, and WEIS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alix R. Rubin (Argued), Lowenstein Sandler, Roseland, NJ, Edward Barocas, American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey Foundation, Newark, NJ, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Susan C. Cassell (Argued), Assistant U.S. Attorney, Office of United States Attorney, Newark, NJ, for Appellees.